The 10 Biggest MVP Snubs of the 21st Century 

Even though altuve didn't cheat in 2017, judge should have won it. His stats are pretty much better across the board

I know that Ryan Braun had amazing stats in 2011, but I think Matt Kemp had the slightly better season overall, and therefore he got snubbed for the NL MVP.

I kept waiting for Pedro Martinez 2000 to show up, but it never did. He had arguably the greatest pitching season of all time, setting the WHIP and ERA+ records and putting up 11.7 bWAR. He only finished in 5th place because his win total was only 18 and the Red Sox weren't great. Giambi won with 7.8 WAR, nearly 4 full wins behind Pedro. He was also robbed in 1999, but obviously that's before the time frame for this list.

In 2016 if Kershaw hadn't got hurt I think he might have won his 2nd MVP. When he got hurt his pitching was insanely good. His strikeouts to walk ratio was the best. He was at his peak that year. Yes, I know his record in the post-season is bad.

McCutchen deserved it in 2013, he took the Pirates to the playoffs for the 1st time in like 21 years

I wish it was easier for 1st baseman to accumulate WAR, because Carlos Delgado was the best offensive player in the AL in 2003 on a team with a WAY better record, but lost because he was up against a shortstop, who just automatically produce better WAR due to their position. Also Donaldson and Trout is WAY less egregious if you look at fWAR, it's 9.3 vs 8.7 which IMO the Jays winning the division makes up the difference, to where I don't think it's even a snub.

Eddie Murray's 1980s.

Judge wasn’t consistent in 2017. That is why he didn’t win. He slumped whole month and a half. Altuves consistency had more impact vs judge.

The trash cans got snubbed in 2017.

Yo Homerun, are any of your videos getting copyright claimed? cause there's other creators out there, that have been getting copyright claims from MlB

Rookie of the year snubs next? If so, while this is pre-2000, please give an honorable mention to 1986 Mark Eichhorn, his story is amazing and would honestly make for a great video on its own-He was easily the slowest pitcher in the league, throwing a slider at 65-70 MPH almost exclusively, yet had probably the greatest season a reliever ever had in hindsight. If I were an awards voter that year, I'd have had Eichhorn 2nd in my Cy Young ballot-only behind peak Roger Clemens.

You sound exactly like Airtime thrills.

you sound just like airtime thrills lmao

An-drew jones, lad

I'm not trying to hate on this video, but a lot of your picks are just plain wrong. Saying Ortiz is the snub is 100% false. Travis Hafner had an a .1097 OPS and had more war than Morneau, Jeter, and Ortiz even while playing 20 less games. Also, in 2000, bonds played 17 less games than Helton, so his war was one lower. When it comes to a situation like that with their war, it shouldn't just come down to war so Bonds should have won. His ops+ was 25 points higher, 188 compared to 163. Utley, Pujols, Wright and Jones were also better than Holliday in 2007. Holliday: 151 ops+ 6 war Utely: 147 ops+ 7.8 war Wright: 149 ops+ 8.3 war Pujols: 157 ops+ 8.7 war Jones: 165 ops+ 7.6 war Glad you mentioned Trout in 15, and Bautista in 11 though. Both aren't really talked about as snubs for some reason.

Love your videos but the eye test is a little bit more then stats also one stat you didn’t bring up is Freddie freeman in 2020 had an rbi a game

Tho he did win in 2001, I think Ichiro was snubbed 2004. And by BWAR, Vlad Sr. wasn’t even top 5. So that should’ve been talked about.

Should mention that David Wright was also more deserving of that 2007 MVP than Rollins.

No mention of Ryan Howard over Albert Pujols in 2006 is absurd

Judge was abysmal in the month of August in 2017. That’s why the voters went with Altuve at the end.

Rollins also had 20 triples

If 2021 Jacob DeGrom didn’t get hurt he would have won MVP

soto/freeman: Yea Soto should've won, that Freeman win felt like a "okay you've been good for a long time, here you go" award lol, but I don't hold the 2020 awards highly yeli/belli: If Yelich didn't get hurt he would've won, he def would've hit 50 bombs too votto/stanton: Yea this probably should've gone to Votto, but Stanton winning was cool so I never had a problem with the outcome 10: Pujols probably won this cause bonds kept winning prior, so similar to freeman where it was like okay here you go lol 9: Yea Jeter shoulda won 8: YES Trout should have like 5 mvps lmao (love miggy tho) 7: dang never knew how crazy that 2000 race was lol 6: I agree Trout should've won, but Donaldson was pretty great that year plus they made the playoffs so that probably factored in 5: A Rod is no stranger to having an mvp stolen from him lol, should've won in 96 too (best clean season from a shortstop ever probably) 4: idk I'm fine with the JV win, he was immaculate that season. Bautista is that dude tho no doubt 3: This race always irks me, Judge should've had it lol (Trout would've won if he didn't get hurt) 2: Counterpoint, Ichiro is much cooler :] love giambi tho lol 1: Matt Holliday winning would've been sweet, wonder if that would've kept him on the hof ballot longer. I might argue that David Wright had a better case tho Great video I love your breakdowns lol

Austin Riley of the braves deserves one. That’s if he doesn’t have one already

A lot of revisionist history here… did you just start watching baseball this year?